A majestic story of orderly progress
Subtitle: English-Canadian novelists on Canadian society, 1896-1900.
Series: Canadian theses on microfilm, no. 7183; Canadian theses on microfilm
Publisher: Carleton University
Published: 1969
Place of publication: [Ottawa]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Canadian literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society
Genres: Cultural History
Description: While the novel intentionally tells a story, it also unintentionally depicts certain well-accepted norms of behaviour which we might call our collective conditioning as a society.  In almost all cases, novelists do not set out to define their social views but reproduce them as part of the assimilated, unconscious background of ideas.  This thesis lays out some of the accepted theories of the period on how the individual, the mind, the body, and society function.  Some of these theories contrast with present-day conditioning. For instance, the view that we grow by repressing ourselves has been exchanged for the view that we grow by expressing ourselves.  Moreover, we no longer accept a racial hierarchy in the world with Anglo-Saxons or any other group at the top and non-whites at the bottom.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University.  Bibliography: leaves 165-174.  Microfilm of typescript.  Ottawa, National Library, 1971.  1 reel.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1-7
class: chapter
label: I; label: II
pagenum: 8-15
class: chapter
title: Triumphant Science; label: III
pagenum: 16-37
class: chapter
title: Anglo-Saxons and Others; title: Anglo-Saxons and Others
pagenum: 38-63
class: chapter
label: IV; title: The Higher Orders
pagenum: 64-83
class: chapter
label: V; label: VI
pagenum: 84-102
class: chapter
title: Sin, Want, and Poverty; label: VII
pagenum: 103-118
class: chapter
title: Narrow-Minded Saints and Broad-Minded Sinners; title: Beseiged Religion
pagenum: 119-129
class: chapter
label: VIII; title: Trouble in Eden
pagenum: 130-140
class: chapter
label: IX; title: God Made the Country and Man Made the Town
pagenum: 141-154
class: chapter
label: X; label: XII
pagenum: 165-174
class: chapter
title: Bibliography